Saturday, 15 January 2011

Welcome to our very first Blog Hop, it's going to be such fun with lots of prizes to be won and we are all really excited and hope lots of you are going to join in the fun.

The DT have all created a special piece of work which you will find on their blogs as you visit and you have from today until midnight BST on 22nd January to enter. And don't forget you can still enter this months challenge as well......the theme is "All You Need is Love".

For those of you who have never joined in a Hop before this is what you need to do:

1) Start from here and leave a comment on this post.2) Visit all DT blogs and the Penny Black blog - nine in total listed below3) Leave a comment on each.4) Collect a letter clue from each.5) Use those letters along with the ones already given in the grid below to make two words and mail you answer to me brenda@ibas.co.uk

Your starting point is here and each blog you visit will tell you where you should have arrived from and where you need to go next.....and of course the prize you can win on their blog......but if you get lost you can come back here and start afresh.............

Just to remind you that there is a prize up for grabs on each blog you visit and a winner will be selected from all those who leave a comment on each blog. Then a further prize pictured below will go to the winner selected from all correct answers mailed to me at the addy above.

Don't forget the challenge is still running until the 28th of the month as usual and there is an extra special prize as well this month selected from all our new followers.

Saturday, 1 January 2011

Happy New Year from us all here at Penny Black at Allsorts. We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and holiday period and had lots of new crafty goodies that you are going to share with us this month.

I have so much news to share with you I am not sure where to start, so I guess prizes would be a good place as there are a few more than usual. As well as our regular four stamps, we have a new sponsor offering a fabulous prize every month, plus a special one off prize for a winner selected from all the new followers who link up this month....................and as you will know from my post a few days ago, on 15th January we are hosting a Blog Hop, lots of fun and excitement and more fabulous prizes to be won. So keep an eye on your dashboard so you don't miss a thing.........please lift our special logo from our sidebar to help spread the word

To kick off the New Year we have a fresh new challenge for you and would like to see your interpretation's based on the Beatles 1967 song hit:

All you need is Love

I have a feeling lots of you will be making a start of those Valentine cards and we are really looking forward to visiting you and seeing your fabulous creations.

There are six prizes in total up for grabs this month, four from the wonderful Penny Black

Penny Black 4027K Heart Garland

Penny Black 40-024 Rain or Shine

Penny Black 4051K Cupcake Glory

Penny Black 40-014 Lofty

Don't forget the new Amour 2011 stamps are now available....check them out here and just to tease you a little reminder that the Spring 2011 stamps will be available very soon so sign up here to be one of the first to get a peek at them.

Also an extra prize as well which I will tell you about shortly, plus we are thrilled to have a new sponsor PB Stamps

.........who are offering a lifetime 15% discount for products purchased from their store, it you have never visited them you don't know what you are missing.................new stamps, old stamps and even discontinued stamps..............I was ubber thrilled to find a really old one there a couple of weeks ago that has been a 'need' item for ages.

Now for an extra special bit, we will select a extra winner from those who link up as a follower this month. So many people keep telling us they are so surprised but excited to find us, so if you link up to follow us you will be the first to know about all that's going on.

And finally, some inspiration and firstly I would like to welcome our January Guest Designer, here is her lovely creation.......

And if you saw my post a few days ago you will know we have two lovely new DT members this month, Louise and Tracy. We are so pleased to have them on board and you can check out their work and blogs along with all the DT's creations by clicking on their names.